Westbound, empty Southern Pacific coal train at (drum roll) Ludlow, Colorado, on the old Colorado and Southern main line. No, it’s not a detour. It is running on trackage rights granted to SP at... (more)

This Utah Ry. coal train is part way into its climb up Price River Canyon to Soldier Summit. This location is just west of the crossovers at Lynn. Not seen are the 6 manned swing helpers about 2/3... (more)

For my job in oil and gas drilling, I needed to go visit a drilling rig which was drilling a gas well off of Consumers Road near Helper, Utah. Consumers Rd. goes right past the Wildcat coal loadou... (more)

Ivatt LMS class 2 2-6-0 46521 approaching Kinchley Lane with a Loughborough to Swithland sidings rake of Mineral Wagons.

Southern Railway,Bulleid Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 34081 92 SQUADRON passing Abbots House Farm near Goathland with the 14.58 Grosmont to Pickering service.

B.R. standard class 4 2-6-0 76079 climbing past Darnholme with the 09.31 Grosmont to Pickering service

You are looking at the return, loaded, move of a Utah Ry. crude oil train. It had come east from Provo earlier in the day with a train of empty tank cars, which it set out at Martin Yard. They the... (more)

UP 7853 east in Cliffside siding is waiting for UP 6803 west to lug it’s manifest train, the MRORV-07, up the 1% grade of Silver Zone Pass in eastern Nevada. The conductor is on the ground givin... (more)

UP 7325 has rounded Arnolds Loop on the 1% climb to the summit of the Toano Range at Silver Zone Pass. I believe this is a grain train but it could be Soda Ash or another bulk commodity. Summit is... (more)

Utah Ry. 6060 west is bringing an empty coal train over Soldier Summit and in the process is overtaking a BNSF trackage rights manifest train stopped on track #1. The BNSF train followed the Utah ... (more)

There’s an interesting back story to this shot of UP 8490 with a westbound grain train about to enter Arnolds Loop in eastern Nevada. Earlier in this misty, sometimes rainy day the train ahead o... (more)

This is the shortest coal train I have ever seen on Soldier Summit; 20 cars loaded at the Savage coal loadout near Wellington, Utah. After I posted this shot on a railfan site in 2010 I learned th... (more)

Utah Ry. 5004 and 3 more big 6 axle units are bringing this unit coal train up the lower reaches of Price River Canyon near the crossovers at Lynn. Further back in the train is a 5 unit manned hel... (more)

Lakeside, Utah is one ugly place. It is where the Union Pacific Lakeside sub reaches dry land after crossing the Great Salt Lake causeway to the west shore. Not a tree in sight; no permanent popul... (more)

Just north of East Belle Ayr Jct. on the BNSF Orin Sub. in eastern Wyoming is Whitetail Hill. It is steep enough to require loaded trains to get an assist from the Belle Ayr helpers which are seen... (more)